How To Install cachefilesd on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cachefilesd on Fedora 34.
What is cachefilesd
The cachefilesd daemon manages the caching files and directory that are that are used by network file systems such a AFS and NFS to do persistent caching to the local disk.
We can use yum or dnf to install cachefilesd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cachefilesd.
Install cachefilesd on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cachefilesd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cachefilesd
Install cachefilesd on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cachefilesd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cachefilesd
How To Uninstall cachefilesd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the cachefilesd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cachefilesd
cachefilesd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/cachefilesd.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/7c42df7cfe9e5d836656b5f6197bccb2a59044
/usr/lib/systemd/system/cachefilesd.service
/usr/sbin/cachefilesd
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/README
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/cachefilesd.fc
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/cachefilesd.if
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/cachefilesd.te
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/howto.txt
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/move-cache.txt
/usr/share/man/man5/cachefilesd.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/cachefilesd.8.gz
/var/cache/fscache
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cachefilesd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.